Light House Beach and Sugarloaf Point Lighthouse - NSW

 If staying up at Smith's Lakes or Bluey's beach, it's very easy to not venture beyond your local beach haunt each day. One excursion worth doing is heading over to Seal Rocks, and the car accessible Light House beach. While it's one of the few beaches in NSW that you're allowed to drive on - make sure you know what you're doing (in regards to reducing tyre pressure etc) otherwise park at the car park and walk up the broad beach to the light house.

The seal colony is long gone, but the township is less populated than the rest of the area, and a feeling of remoteness is a blessing in this undeveloped rarity of Australian coastline.

The walk up to the light house is easy (though exerting) and the views are worth the effort. In winter it's a prime spot for whale spotting. The lighthouse was built in 1875 and is the second-most easterly lighthouse in Australia.

It was the perfect way to spend an overcast morning, but can you imagine the stunning blue of the water if the sky was clear?

Understandably, this is a prime summer holiday escape - so book early, to avoid disappointment (though there is plenty of accommodation in Pacific Palms and the Great Lakes Region, and it's a pretty drive though forest lined roads to get there).

Seal Rocks is approx. 3 hours north of Sydney.

Practicalities:
Accommodation options
http://www.sealrockslighthouseaccommodation.com.au/
http://www.treacherycamp.com.au/
http://www.northcoastholidayparks.com.au/park/info/seal-rocks
also plenty of houses on Stayz.

Seal Rocks Tourism information http://greatlakes.org.au/places/pacific-palms/seal-rocks

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